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How to do pre-election polling with statistics? (discrete results)
In statistics, it is taught about samples that can have some range of numbers as their values. However, in election like presidential election, there are only several candidates to choose. In that ...
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Comparing ballot data from two consecutive elections
I have two datasets of general elections (in a multi-party single-vote system) which I'm trying to analyze.
Each has about 10,000 data points (ballots) with some 30+ features - the main features are ...
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In an election, how can we tell the certainty that a candidate will be the winner?
There was a general election where I live yesterday and the television network started calling out winners long before all ballots were opened.
They turned out right on all accounts, and I'm not ...
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How is election fraud by ballot stuffing possible?
An NPR story on the upcoming Russian presidential election mentioned that 5% of polling sites would be equipped with new electronic ballot boxes that would reject attempts to submit multiple ballots. ...
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Where to find “Incumbent party margin of victory data”?
In Which Economic Indicators Best Predict Presidential Elections?, Nate Silver references a variable called "Incumbent Party Margin of Victory" for US presidential elections. I was wondering, is ...
